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I'm carried by mad animals. What am I?
Even if my life is taken eight still remain.
This noble creature has the embarrassing inability to get up once it's been flipped onto its back.
While I did live, I food did give, which many one did daily eat. Now being dead, you see they tread me under feet about the street.
Known as a great deceiver, It is evil's incarnation, Once used for veneration, The root of all procreation. All you can do is shiver, When it begins to slither.
What made Cyclops quit teaching?